The novel "Darkness" - the second volume of the trilogy "OST" ("Frost Farm", "Darkness", "Escape from yourself"). The events of the novel cover the period from the Civil War to the beginning of World War II. Darkness is all terrible, tragic, dark, brought by the Soviet government - war, famine, mass political processes, the Gulag.
The main characters of the novel - Ivan Moroz, his brothers, family. Ivan is arrested as an "enemy of the people", he lives years of captivity, torture, humiliation. And, although not broken physically and morally, he was forced to cooperate with the Soviet authorities. To survive in the new conditions, he proves to be a capable, enterprising manager, but remains hostage to a totalitarian state that grinds everyone and everything.